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Sorting your expenses between the necessary and discretionary will help prepare your budget for bumps.

Paying off debt is important, but not at the expense of savings and retirement plans.

As a grandparent, you have options for providing support for grandchildren and lending assistance to parents.

With interest rates rising, borrowers may pay more for loans but savers may welcome the higher yields.

Becoming a new parent comes with a lot of new considerations and responsibilities.

Putting together a budget can be pretty straightforward, but the trick is following it.

Understand the level of risk you are personally willing to accept before committing money to investments.

Is the money you are giving your adult child helping or preventing him or her from becoming self-sufficient?

Here are some ways to help a youngster in addition to what the parents may have planned.

Changes in tax law regarding alimony will likely make financial planning for divorce more complex.

The financial pyramid helps you achieve your saving and retirement goals by prioritizing your finances.

If you qualify for a Roth IRA, it might make sense to limit a 401(k) to employer match.

Starting over in a new career requires a financial cushion and plenty of planning.

Annuities come in many forms with many different provisions. Here are some useful terms.

Don’t let college costs, market volatility, or longevity risk give you nightmares.

Strategies that can potentially help lower your 2018 tax bill.

The odds of winning the lottery are more than 1 in 292 million. But the odds of suffering a disability?

The financial considerations for stepparents may be more complex than the ones for biological parents.

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